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Aussie cricketers must stand up when it counts

24 Jul 2009

On July 9, Australia lost a true national treasure. A bloke who stood up. In May 1945, Edward (Ned) Kenna was in the midst of a raging gun battle in the hellhole that was Papua New Guinea during WWII.

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Where to start? Ill disciplined batting, woeful fielding, substandard bowling…Congrats to England, they thoroughly deserve the plaudits coming their way… but we have made them look good too. Michael Slater just stated on channel nine that he thought the current Australian team was the best 11 players in the country. Sorry, but I can’t cop that. Is he saying that our best crop of players can’t get within an innings of England? Call me arrogant, but what a load of shite. We have 11 players out there somewhere waiting to dish it up to these pommy blokes. It is irrefutable that it is time for change. I am not being negative, or a Ponting/Clarke basher, quite the opposite, for Aussie cricket to go forward, we must be positive and that involves tough decisions and change. The change needs to be from the top down. It does no good to blame the likes of Hughes and Smith, this series was lost months if not years before they were thrown into the deep end. Sutherland, Hilditch, Nielson and Ponting should all step down this week; No, they should step down this very afternoon. Clarke needs to go back to Sheffield Shield. We need to rebuild. We need to start now. The problem has been ignored for 18 months since exactly the same thing happened on English shores. Perhaps it was easier to ignore because it was over there. But it can no longer be ignored. I’ll pose a question to you… if you were to pick a first 11 from these two squads, which Aussies would make the cut? On current form, surely it could only be Hussey and Haddin in for Collingwood and Prior.

England deserve their Ashes success

29 Dec 2010

isn't it enough that they don't even show it live, but rather on a 3-5 second delay so you are unable to listen to informed commentary on the ABC? Now they are just cutting it off mid over... I'm sure those anti-syphoning laws mention something about sports that are of national interest.... C'mon its the freakin ASHES!

Can’t bowl, can’t bat, can’t toss a coin now, either

17 Dec 2010

goddamn channel nine! The best session of the summer sofar... tense exciting, challenging and they go the the news. take the cricket off them and give it back to the ABC. they only had to stay with it for 1 more minute to have the innings wrapped up. channel nine are a joke.

Can’t bowl, can’t bat, can’t toss a coin now, either

17 Dec 2010

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